Terran Orbital’s GEOStare SV2 Spacecraft Completes Commercial Imaging Contract for Lockheed Martin
January 09 2023 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
GEOStare SV2 launched in May of 2021 on a
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is Terran Orbital’s first internally
funded commercial imaging spacecraft
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in
satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and
defense industries, today announced its GEOStare SV2 spacecraft
completed a commercial data services imagery contract for Lockheed
Martin.
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GEOStare SV2 captures multiple frames of
La Guardia Airport during rush hour. All images compiled and
overlaid to capture on-ground activity. (Image Credit: Terran
Orbital Corporation)
Throughout the duration of the contract, Terran Orbital’s
operations team successfully demonstrated the ability to rapidly
re-task the spacecraft to assemble a catalog of thousands of images
to support an independent research project led by Lockheed
Martin.
GEOStare SV2's main payload consists of two MonoTele telescopes
designed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is a
dual-use system suitable for both Earth Observation and Space
Domain Awareness (SDA). The aim of space domain awareness is to
track the satellites and debris in space to avoid collisions.
GEOStare SV2 combines Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s
Monolithic Telescope (MonoTele) technology with Terran Orbital’s
expertise producing high-reliability spacecraft. The technology was
developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Terran
Orbital under a four-year, $6 million cooperative research and
development agreement (CRADA) to advance compact satellites for
commercial applications.
“Terran Orbital is very pleased that Lockheed Martin chose us to
fulfill the need for rapid, cost-effective satellite imagery,” said
Terran Orbital Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
Marc Bell. “We are also grateful for the opportunity to collaborate
with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. As always, we are
thrilled to complete this contract for our partners and look
forward to many more collaborations in the future, both with the
GEOStare spacecraft and with other planned missions.”
“Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is pleased to be teaming
with Terran Orbital, and that our collaborative work on GEOStare is
meeting some of the growing need for commercial satellite imagery,”
said Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Space Program Leader
Benjamin Bahney. “We are exploring new ways to develop rapid and
responsive satellite imagery, and GEOStare is a great example of
what two leading technical institutions can do when they work
together.”
About Terran Orbital
Terran Orbital is a leading manufacturer of satellite products
primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries. Terran
Orbital provides end-to-end satellite solutions by combining
satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations,
and on-orbit support to meet the needs of the most demanding
military, civil, and commercial customers. Learn more at
www.terranorbital.com.
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